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In my experience, there is a tradeoff between high re-usability and performance. Building modules that can interact with any one of hundreds of other modules u
by deweller 8y ago
In my experience, there is a tradeoff between high re-usability and performance.
Building modules that can interact with any one of hundreds of other modules usually requires a fair amount of adapter code. This code comes with a performance penalty.
Maybe their market is ok with lesser performance. But I am highly skeptical that apps built this way will ever compete with apps built for a single, specific purpose.
I do hope they can advance the state of the art in some way though, because software development still feels way more tedious to me than it should be.
- claydavisss 8y agoAnd this already exists to a certain extent - people selling Windows UI widgets, people selling React components...most of this stuff has gone away and been replaced by open SDKs or services. This just seems like gig-economy + 90s Windows Widget business
- rapsey 8y agoPeople run js everywhere and use ruby/python/php on the server. None of these are efficient
- xae342 8y agoWe need a new type of object that isn’t just a clever pattern that can be reused but understands how to adapt to the program it’s in, a smart object. I was hoping that’s what this company was doing with AI but I guess not.
- memebox3f 8y agoThat's the best idea I have heard this year.